It just keeps getting better for the local business scene regarding social media marketing. First you had Google Places, a platform upon which local businesses could leverage Google search via desktops and mobile phones to get top rankings in search results. Then you got Facebook Places and Facebook Deals, both of which allow local businesses […]
Category: Twitter
The casual coffee shop visitor who whips out his or her laptop to enjoy some free Wi-Fi service has more reason to be concerned these days.
Developer Eric Butler has produced a web browser add-on called Firesheep that makes viewing and using people’s private, sensitive information over wireless networks easy for even complete novices.
Butler reportedly had good intentions in creating this very dangerous tool. Because of its ease of use, Firesheep’s potential for doing damage is huge. Butler explains that “it’s extremely common for websites to protect your password by encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the user) vulnerable.” Because of the widespread exploitation of such security holes, Butler contends that he created Firesheep “to demonstrate just how serious this problem is.”
I just finished having lunch with a great friend of mine who heads up the mission trips at our church. We’ve been talking a lot lately about how technology, media, the Internet, and live streaming can all be leveraged to transform the way churches “do” missions trips, and how their local church body can get […]
Twitter announced today that “Twitter for Google TV” will come pre-installed on all Google TV’s. Twitter said that tweets aren’t just about TV shows, they are part of them. And this is true… take a look at the trending topics on any given Sunday for example. Nearly all of the trending topics are related to […]
Jets receiver Braylon Edwards was arrested Tuesday morning for driving drunk in Manhattan. The arrest took place at 34th and 12th at approximately 5:15am Tuesday morning and Braylon Edwards was charged with DWI. The reported level of intoxication was that Edwards blew a .16 on the breathalyzer test – double the New York State’s legal […]
UPDATE: Here’s the latest on the Twitter security bug directly from Twitter’s status blog: We’ve identified and are patching a XSS attack; as always, please message @safety if you have info regarding such an exploit. We expect the patch to be fully rolled out shortly and will update again when it is. Update (6:50 PDT, […]
You might not want to mouseover any links on Twitter until a major bug / security flaw gets resolved. This bug is particularly bad because all you have to do is mouseover a link and potentially third party sites and pop ups can open. The bug is powered by a JavaScript function called onMouseOver and […]